Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-02-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

"A case of hog stealing on grand scale,
said to have been carried on for the pnst two
years has come to light by the arrest Of the
parties who are alleged to have done the work.
1t is claimed that during that time no less than
$500 hogs have been taken from trains of the
Chicago and Northwestern road, aggregating
in value between SIS, 600 and $4,000 Dennis
McGurl, proprietor of a soap factory on West
ern Avenue, Chicago his son, Dennis McGurl,
Jr., and five of the employees of the establish
nent named August Henry, Alfred King, Far
rell OReiley, John Resan and Thomas Sulli-
van comprise the list of those arrested in the
case.
About two hundred cases of gunpowder in
transit over the Missouri Pacific Road ex-
ploded half mile west of Fort Scott, demol-
fishing fifteen freight cars, and instantly killing
Scott Hooker, brakeman Ten thousand
dollars worth of plate glass in the city was
broken by the concussion.
The grand jury at Sioux City returned in
dictments against twenty one saloonkeepers,
to trial
Rev. L. L. Luse was arrested and jailed at
Erie Pa, on a charge of forgery and perjury
committed in Nebraska. His reputation at
Erie is said to be spotless, and his friends
there allege a plot on the part of his prose-
cutors.
Robert c. Brachrogel, alias. Robert G.
Matthews, who claimed to be the owner of
several handsome cabs in Chicago, has been
arrested Tor the forgery Of q number of checks
on the Second Ward Savings bank of Milwau-
kee, few of which he disposed of to a local
gambling house.
IS. Angler Chace, who nine years ago en-
bezzled nearly $500,000 from Fall River mill
of which he was treasurer, has been pardoned
from the Massachusetts, Penitentiary by Gov.
Ames, on account of impaired health.
&C. D. W. Gibson, of Wood River, Neb,
suicided in Chicago hotel ON the 22d inst by
taking poison. Several letters to relatives
were found on the table in his room, but none
explained the cause for his suicide.
DIR. G. Patterson, of Bcloit, Wis, having
become wreck from the use Of cocaine, has
been sent to Jail for twenty days, on charge
of yagrancy.
An explosion Of locomotive boiler on the
Louisville and Nashville passenger train killed
the engineer and fireman, injured several 9TH
ers, and wrecked the entire train.
John Dickey, a farmer near Agnes, Tex,
without any warming murdered his wife,
breaking her skull with stick of wood. His
3-year-old child, who was in the arms of its
grandmother, he then killed in spite of all that
could be done by the grandmother to save the
childs life. The murderer then walked to the
side of his dead wife and shot himself through
the head Dickey recently gave signs of tenn
porary insanity for few days, but it was
thought he had fully recovered
George Hazard, colored man, who broke
intoa Catholic convent at Greenfield, Michi-
gan, and compelled a nun to leap through
window, has been sentenced to twenty years in
the Penitentiary
Mrs. Cabalek, the wife of an industrious
carpenter of Cleveland, Ohio, had a few un-
pleasant words with her husband over trivial
matter as he left for his work on the morning
of the goth, and in a fit of petulance OF insan-
ity murdered three Of her children, MORALLY
wounded two others, and then went to the
basement and suicided by hanging herself to
the rafters with clothes-line. A pair of
shears was the instrument used in the bloody
work. The little ones were terribly cut about
the abdomen and sides below tile heart, and
presented horrible appearance.